IN THIS ISSUE:
*U.S. clean-tech investment falls 45% in fourth quarter
*Renewable Energy Focus
..Cleantech to benefit from jobs bill, not climate bill
*Renewable energy trade associations call for federal action on RE
*Renewables industry promotes its potential
*Foreign energy firms getting windfall of U.S. stimulus funds: investigation
*NREL releases report on feed-in tariffs
*EPA creates office of sustainable communities
*California setting pace for federal climate goals
*Effort underway to suspend California's global-warming law
*UCSD testing wind turbines' ability to handle earthquakes
*California turbines frozen in Minnesota wind
*Los Angeles eyes Owens Lake for huge solar project
*Okaland's Renewable Funding eases solar financing problem
*Notable Renewable Energy Projects and Deals
..BrightSource alters solar plant plan to address concerns over desert tortoise
..Startup 1BOG gets funding for a new way to sell solar
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